Louis levett



L. LEVBTT. SIGN LETTER Patented Aug. 2, 18 92. v

(No Model.)

8 E S S M H W A TTOHNE Y S.

NITE TATES LOUIS LEVETT, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

- SIGN-LETTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,106, dated August 2, 1892.

Application filed November 20,1891. Serial No.- 4l2,522. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS LEVET'I, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sign-Letters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to letters or symbols principally used for forming signs on panes of glass in Windows and doors.

The object of the invention is to provide certain new and useful improvements in signletters, whereby the letters may be readily attached to the glass or other article to form a desired sign without the employment of skilled labor, and which letters can be quickly removed and interchanged to form a differently-reading sign.

The invention consists principally of a letter, symbol, or ornament constructed of separable parts, some of which are provided with suitable fastenings for attachment to glass plates or other objects, which parts are adapted to receive and hold the remaining parts of the letter, symbol, or ornament, the several parts when joined and combined together forming a complete letter, symbol, or ornament.

The invention also consists of certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front view of the improvement as applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a letter with one of the parts removed, and Fig. 4: is a transverse section of a modified form of the improvement.

The improved letters, symbols,or ornaments are each constructed of separable parts, some of which are provided with suitable fastenings for attachment to glass plates or other objects and form supports for the remaining parts. Hereinafter the first-n amed parts are termed the body part A of the letter, symbol, or ornament, while the other parts are designated as supports B.

The body part A of the improved sign letters or symbols may be made of sheet metal, glass, earthenware, or other desirable material, and hung on the supports B, cemented or otherwise secured to the inside of the pane of glass 0 or other object for carrying the sign, so that the front or obverse side of the body part of the letter or symbol fits snugly upon the inner or outer surface of the glass plate or-other object, and is protected from being soiled or becoming defaced. The sup ports Bare arranged to form part of the letters or symbols intended to be carried by them, so as to heighten the ornamentation of the letter or symbol, and thereby greatly add to the attractiveness of the sign. As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, each support B is made hollow or cup-shaped and filled with a suitable cement for attaching the support to the glass plate, the cup being fitted with its edge upon the glass plate and the cement contained sign, each letter or symbol, however, fitting tightly upon the glass plates.

It is understood that the several supports B for one letter are placed in position on the glass plate, so as to [it into the correspondingly-arranged recess in the body part, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. For conveniently accomplishing this stencils may be employed to mark the place for the supports on the glass plates preparatory to cementing the supports in place.

As shown by the letter I in the drawings, the supports B are formed in the shape of projections or lugs having recesses filled with the cement for attaching the letters to the pane of glass. The body part of the letter or symbol for this support is formed with indentations fitting upon part of the lug, so that the body part is supported on the lug, the obverse side of the letter or symbol abutting against the glass plate. Instead of making indentations in the body parts, a number of supports B may be arranged on the outer edges of the letters, so as to carry the body part, as is plainly shown in Figs. 1 and 2 by the letter B. In this case the supports form the ordinary extension for the letter.

As shown in Fig. 4, the support is formed with a recess adapted to be engaged by a pin projecting from the side of the body part. It

is understood that the supports are first cemented upon the glass plates in a proper position relative to the body part they are to carry, which latter is then hung on the support in the manner above described.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the supports can be made in various shapes and forms, and I do not limit myself to the particular forms shown.

hen it is desired to change the sign, the operator removes the body parts A of the several letters and then washes off or otherwise removes the supports B from the glass plate. By recementing the supports on the glass plate a differently-reading sign will be readily produced, the letters being differently arranged or interchanged for different words, as the case may require.

As the letters are secured independently of one another, any one of the letters may be readily removed and replaced by another without disturbing the remainingletters form- 1 ing the sign.

ed to receive and hold the remaining parts of the letter, the several parts when joined and combined together forming a complete letter, as set forth.

2. In a device of the classdescribed, the combination, with a glass plate or equivalent object, of a window-sign letter adapted to be carried by the said glass plate and composed of separable parts, some of which are provided with suitable fastenings for attachment to the said plate, which parts are adapted to receive and hold the remaining part or parts of the letter, the several parts when joined and combined together forming the complete letter, as set forth.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a signletter comprising a body portion and a sup port for holding and securing a letter to an object and forming a part of the letter, as

specified.

LOUIS LEVETT. *Witnessesi Tnno. G. HosTER, C. SEDGWICK. 

